Labs

Google Think Insights compiles real-time data from Google search and other platforms, combining those facts with additional studies, infographics, and more. Google will use the site as a data-centric storehouse for trends, insights, and research.

Google announced that several products will be shut down by early 2012. This includes Google Buzz, Code Search, the University Research Program for Google Search, iGoogle social features, Jaiku, and several APIs associated with these services.

The Google+ identity dust-up only started with virtual worlds because that group were the first to predict the oncoming freight train. Linden Lab responded by developing Social Profiles as a way to take matters into their own virtual hands.

A lot of new and interesting things happen in relation to Second Life. Meeroos, a timeline for Mesh, The Great Facebook Avatar Deletion. But this week I'm going to discuss Linden Lab claims that the in-world search engine by completely rebuilding it.